Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 20, 1959, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextTry and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF LETTER RECEIVED by the editor of a big family maga i zine: "Sir: My wife was about to divorce me until she read your touching article about -the evils of a broken home. Now she says she is going - to stay. Kindly cancel ray subscription.' la this wonderful age, muse Jack Faar, when man can fly through the air Ska a bird, and navi gate under water like a fiah, wouldn't it he great If he also still could walk on til th earth like a man? Millionaire had a couple ef babes out on his yacht when an icy wind suddenly , Jhlew up. The millionaire called down to his crew, .. "Is there a macintosh down there big enough to keep a couple of young ladies warm?" "No" came the answer, "but there's a MacPherson hete who' w$ing to try." C 19i. t7 Bamttt Cert Diitributed by King Teaturtf Syndicate. ILLINOIS VALLEY Selma Man Injured By MARGARET M. CROWL J and national president from Cave Junction - Ralph Fer-j Oregon of the association, was guson, Selma, was seriously Principal speaker. ' injured one evening late last! Illinois Vail pv Hieh school week when the car he was xnt a bus to Medford Friday In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The day's news ... a " Cold wars and rumors of hot wars . . . and the terrible weapons that will be used if a outer space . . . with the prob ability that a MAN will soon er or later be sent out there . . . for better or worse. Peo- rije who become rich and fa- mmie hv hrMlrina pll thf mn- g,ral laws . . . strikes . . . in flation ... the growing yen &r the quick buck . . . the demagogue politicians and what they say to garner thoughtless votes . . . the growing struggle to make ends meet. 1 ; What a mishmash it is. I'M SURE some such thought must have been in the mind of the editor of the Grants Pass Courier the other day when he took the cover off his trusty typewriter and tackled his daily job. At any rate, he wound up by writing a nostalgic piece about SOR GHUM MAKING. The sorghum cane in the field ... in those golden days everybody grew a little of it. The hauling of it in to the Sorghum mill that squeezed th sweet juice out of - the slks. The steady old mare that plodded around and around to transform horse muscle into power that would turn wheels. And the vat in which the juice of the cane was boiled down to the sticky syrup that tasted so-o-o-o good on corn pone or flapjacks. And ... which could be transformed by a gifted cook into a taffy candy that was at least an acceptable substitute for the store candy that was wonderful beyond belief but cost too much to be afforded And the men and the women and the children who went around chewing the sweet pith of the sorghum stalks to get the sugar their systems craved but their skimpy purs- s forbade. Y THE TIME the Grants ,JL Pass editor got through with sorghum, his allotted space was filled, and so he quit. But he could have gone on.7 And on. And ON. There was lard rendering time. You wouldn't know about that, so I'll have to tell you. At hog butchering time, the fat was trimmed off the lean meat and boiled down in a huge iron pot strung from a tripod out in the back yard. The residue was CRACK LIN'S. You ground the crack- lin's up and mixed them-with corn meal to make cracklin' bread. And . . . while the boil ing down process was under way, you took tender tidbits of high-on-the-hog lean meat and tied them at the end of a string and dangled them in the bubbling lard until they were cooked to luscious, epi curean perfection. Yum-m-m-m-m-m! AND THEN - , There was HARVEST TIME. In , those hallowed days, there was no migrant labor problem. No international cri ses over the hiring of Mexi can nationals. No migrant la bor cimps." The neighbors just SWAPPED WORK. Accord ing to a prearranged schedule, the threshing machine was at the Brown place one day, at the Jones place the next day, the Smith place the day after that and so on until the grain was all threshed. (And NONE of it went into govern ment warehouses. It was sold as soon as possible and the proceeds used to pay up the year's bills at the store.) -i rriHE MEN workedv in the -- fields, and the women SLAVED in the kitchens. Ev ery woman's reputation was at stake. She knew that if she fizzled when her turn came for threshing dinner (they called it THRASHING then) her name would be mud and her descendants even unto the third and fourth generations driving Went - out of control on Highway 199 north Kerby. He was taken to Josephine General hospital in Grants Pass by Valley Ambulance with head and back injuries. Authorities said his -; car went across a ditch, through a fence and into a pasture. He was thrown from the vehicle. . - Mr. and Mrs. Walt Hunting of the State line have return ed home from a two. weeks vacation in southern Califor nia. While there they attended the Retired San Diego Police officers picnic. Mr. and Mrs. Hunting were both members of the San Diego Police de partment. They also visited friends in Los Angeles, Sac ramento and Redding. Mrs. Joe Ollis, Mrs. Jim Payne, Mrs. Floyd Wells and Mrs. Harry Smith attended the fall meeting of the Sis kiyou district of Oregon Fed eration of Garden clubs Wed nesday in Medford. Mrs. Ollis, president of the local garden club, Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Payne were voting delegates. Mrs. Smith was a guest speaker. . The Episcopal Guild will hold its regular business meet ing Wednesday, Oct. 21. Regu lar work days in preparation for the annual bazaar and plant sale will continue on Wednesdays. Mrs. Harry Smith, chair man of the Josephine County Hospital board, attended a business meeting in Grants Pass. Monday. She plans to attend a meeting of the State Hospital association in Coos Bay : this week. "Mrs. David . Wilson will show slides of her trip to Eurone last summer at a meet ing of the American Legion auxiliary Wednesday at 8 p.rh. in the auxiliary room of the Legion hall. to hear the Marine band at Hedrick Junior High. Pupils were picked up at the high school, Kerby grade school and Jerome Prairie school. Ross Salvage, brother of Fred and Herbert Salvage, was seriously injured at the mill where he . works in Brookings last week when a log rolled on him. Fred and Herbert Salvage went to Crescent City where Ross had been taken to the Del Norte hospital. Mr.' and Mrs. Charlie Reese, Mrs. Lackey, Mrs. Reese sis ter, and her two boys, escap ed serious injury last week when the car in which they were riding was struck by a vehicle driven by Norman Maynard Mellis, as they pull ed out 'of the parking lot near Cave Junction. THE EVIDENCE STACKS UP there's no Gin like GORDON'S It iF .Mi 1 him 1 1 en tut i SL fite ma ion snns noma am on. m im. mm m a a. in. urn ll Illinois Valley Federated Women's; club met at the home of Mrs.; Jack Spitz recently. Guest sDeaker - was Mrs. Carl Peterson, first district president, who gave an out line of coming events and an nounced that November is National Art Month and sug gested that displays of local artists be placed in windows in the' city. - Guests besides Mrs. Peter son' were H. W. Vellmer of Glendale, Calif, who is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wilber, Mrs. Cora Barnes, and Mrs. Marie Olson. Mr. and Mrs. William (Bill) Raines returned recently from Seattle, Wash.; where they at tended v the funeral of their son, Lewis -Donald Raines, who was killed in an automo bile' accident . Oct. 7. Raines, a sergeant in the Army stationed at Ft. Lewis, was killed when returning to the base from his home in Seattle. . Mr. Raines was born in Tul sa county,- Oklahoma, Dec. 11, 1930. He was an MP and in terpreter during the Korean conflict and spoke .seven dif ferent' languages. He was at tached to the. staff personnel at Ft. Lewis, working in the guided missile program. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn; a son, Glenn; a step son, Johnnie, and step-daughter, - Evelyn; his mother and father and four sisters; Mrs. Carl Jolly and Mrs. Jim Mes senger, Cave Junction, Patsy Smith and Norma Lea' Jones, Seattle, Wash.; two brothers, Francis and R. L. Raines of Renton, Wash. Principal Wes Peters of the Illinois Valley High school returned last week from a con ference at Salem of Oregon Secondary School principals. Cliff Robinson, " formerly with the state department, would live under a cloud. And leave us not forget the little colo'ed gals who, come dinner time (dinner was then at noon) stood behind each sweating diner and shooed the flies away with leafy branches. There were no screens them, and no toxic fly sprays. '' ".. AH, ME! Those were the riavs . Do it. again. -Mr-- Grants Pass editor.. Sandra Piper, Lonnie Plum lee, Margy McDermott, R. J. Cross and Walter Eichler, in structor,' attended the Oregon Press conference at Eugene Friday and Saturday. The stu dents are members of the journalism class at IV high. Mrs. Charles De Nure and grandson, David, left last week for . their home after spending 10 days in the val ley visiting friends and rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh White entertained with a din ner party in their honor. Also present was Hugh's mother. After . dinner they; joined a going away party for them at the home of Mrs. Alice Hogue in Kerby. ; " American Legion auxiliary pinochle parties started the winter season of play Satur day. ... - Guardian Council of Job's Daughters Bethel 36, met at the home of Mrs. William Weingart Monday. Guardian Stella Piper opened the meet ing. Reports from the daugh ters candy sale were good. . Refreshments of chicken sandwiches, cake and ice cream were served by the hos tesses, Mrs. Weingart and Mrs. Rackner.The next meet ing will be held at the home of Guardian Stella Piper, Nov. 9. President Mrs. Margaret Crpwl, American Legion aux iliary, announced that at the' next auxiliary meeting Wed nesday, Oct. 21, at 8 pan., Mrs. David Wilson, fourth grade teacher at the. Ever green school, will show color slides of her trip to Europe. The slides are all arranged in sequence from " the time she left until her return. The aux iliary, has invited the public to attend. It will be the reg ular social meeting of the Legion and the Auxiliary. Kerby School PTA will hold its fall Carnival Saturday at the school gymnasium, when special events and contests, under the direction of Princi pay Arch Johnson, will be scheduled. Mrs, Robert Steimer is the overall chairman of the Car nival committee. A weather balloon was found by the Rev. LeRoy Ni dever of Kerby, while hunting 1 in the mountains back of the Q-Bax-X ranch on the West side rd. The balloon and the radio equipment inside it were in good ; shape. It had lodged in some brush on the side of the hill. The tag inside of the box made the request to have it retr-ned to Joliet, 111., and show that it had been released in Medford on May 22. Pupils of the Illinois Valley High school who are studying leather craft are displaying their work this week in one of the windows at Trehearnes store. Harold Smith, son of Emer son Smith of Selma, will graduate from the Northwest Technical Institute in Port land, Oct. 29. Harold will re ceive a degree iii heavy duty mechanics. . The margay of South Amer ican forests . is a tiger-cat about as big as a domestic house cat. No Alphabet Soup For These Fellows New York (CPU The man agement promised today that no alphabet soup would be served when the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., C.M.G., T.D., LID, J.P, is served lunch at a hotel next Tuesday Lord Elgin, guest of the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland, U.SA., will be accompanied by Dr. Alex F. Buchan, M.B.E., B.S.C., Ph.D., F.R. S.E.; Maj. R. H. F. Moncreiff, TJX, and the Rt. Mon. The Countess of Elsgin and Kin cardine, D.B.E. POLITICAL FIGURE DIES Vaduzn, . Liechtenstein-flJPD-Dr. Joseph Hoop, 64, top poli tical figure in Liechtenstein, died Monday in Chur, Switz erland, after an operation. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1959 I" 0 Long Ears Seen 7 Sign off Long Life ? Tokyo -(UPD- Got unusually long ears? Don't let it trouble you. ' - A municipal official in Ise zaki City, northern Japan, says it's a sure sign you'll lite to a ripe old age. . The official, Fusakichi Iga rashi, said he surveyed all 18 persons in his city who are at least 90 years ld and found that all of them have ears that are two centimeters (four-fifths of an inch) longer than the average person's. "I am not a doctor so I can not explain scientifically the relationship between ; long ears and longevity," he said. '.'But from, the survey I con ducted it appears to be a fact" ' 1 ; - $t ? w (? f w w5 vA IT w U lu UNA , SPECIAL VALUES . . SPECIAL SAVINGS IN EVERY VALUE-PACKED DEPARTMENT! SALE! Low price on men's wool suits 29 88 4 Star Speical! Slim looking; 3 button co at, pleated pants. Flannels, worst eds. Many pat terns, colors. .-.-.-.W.-'.-.,.V.vV.-V . " mm SPECIAL! COMPACT BATH CABINET Sturdy tttal body, white n- ml finish. I .70 SALE! Full panel baby crib Crib has easy oper ating kick rod drop . side. t ' 9.95 Wetproof . Mattress 8.88 21 88 TRADE IN SALE! 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